What Biochemists and Biophysicists Do. Biochemists and biophysicists study the chemical and physical principles of living things and of biological processes, such as cell development, growth, heredity, and disease.
How to understand calorie and energy density. The average person eats 3 to 5 pounds of food per day. So, if they were to eat as much in almonds as they could, that would be about 5 pounds of almonds. Since there are about 23 almonds in an ounce, that would be a total of 1840 almonds in a day.
Almonds and Other Nuts. Go nuts! They slim your tummy by keeping it full. A Purdue University study showed that people who ate nuts felt full longer than those who ate rice cakes. Stick to 24 almonds a day to satisfy your hunger pangs without overloading on calories. Watch out: Skip salted nuts; too much sodium raises blood pressure.